Monday’s newspaper circulation numbers please no one who makes their living from selling papers. That’s evident when you look at the top 25 dailies by circulation and see that the best performance came from The Wall Street Journal, which rose less than 1 percent. Considering that advertisers use these numbers to determine where to spend [...]

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Blog Guy, I represent the creative team of a big advertising agency, and we want to buy a photo for an ad campaign.
We need a poor-quality black-and-white photo of a guy standing in front of some pegboard. Preferably, he should be a suspected war criminal.
Money is no object if the photo is bad enough. We [...]

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USA Today and The Wall Street Journal aren’t waiting for Oct. 26, the day North American newspapers report their latest circulation numbers, to begin tussling over which one has the biggest paper.
Editor & Publisher made the first move on Friday when Jennifer Saba reported that USA Today was set to report that circulation fell “17% [...]

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Okay, staff, now you’ll see why we’ve kept our newest movie release under wraps.
We think it’s going to be the surprise smash hit of the holiday season. Who can compete with “Hugh and Muammar’s Excellent Adventure”?

Think of it as “Grumpy Old Men” meets “Thelma and Louise.” Two gruff guys with hearts of [...]

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I didn’t get a chance to look at these numbers on Internet advertising that PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Interactive Advertising Bureau released on Monday, thanks to being on a late shift and having plenty of news to shovel through thanks to Conde Nast. I glanced at them on Tuesday, however, and here’s what I seized on [...]

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